NOTEBOOK #1
In these difficult times, and with Deptford Cinema’s doors closed for the time being, the spirit of cinema lives on through the passion of our volunteers and audiences.
Deptford Cinema’s volunteers will be sharing their favourite movies, stills, scores, locations and cinematic discoveries here - as an ongoing film notebook. New recommendations will be rolled out every now and then for your interest and enjoyment.
Recommended by Sandra
VIEW
Legendary movie posters of Bill Gold
William Gold (January 3, 1921 – May 20, 2018) was an American graphic designer best known for thousands of film poster designs. His first film poster was for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and his final work was for J. Edgar (2011). During his 70-year career he worked with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including Laurence Olivier, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan, Ridley Scott, and many more. (Wikipedia)
The 30 Best Bill Gold Movie Posters you can find in the IndieWire Gallery
Rooney Mara in the scene from the film A Ghost Story.
LISTEN
“I Get Overwhelmed” by Dark Rooms
“I Get Overwhelmed” is the second track on Dark Rooms' 2017 album, Distraction Sickness. It was released as the second single promoting the album on January 16, 2017. This moving song became famous thanks to its appearance in the trailer for the 2017 indie movie A Ghost Story.
The movie is directed by David Lowery, and stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. The song appears twice in the movie – once with a different instrumental, provided by the movie’s score composer Daniel Hart, who is also the frontman of the band. In the movie’s plot the song is written, composed and performed by Casey Affleck’s character C. (Genius)
You can listen to I Get Overwhelmed here
READ
ZOMBIES! An Illustrated History of the Undead
This is the first book to take a long, putrefying look at the entire zombie phenomenon. From origins in Haitian voodoo zombie lore and the literature of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, the undead began to slowly seep through the pulp magazines and silent cinema of the early twentieth century, and on to classic 1970s and 80s undead flicks like Lucio Fulci's Zombie and George A. Romero's legendary Dawn of the Dead.
ZOMBIES! is written by Jovanka Vuckovic, a horror expert, artist and filmmaker. Vuckovic was a former editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue Magazine, the world's largest and fastest-growing horror in culture and entertainment magazine since 1997. She also has appeared in zombie movies by Zack Snyder and George Romero.
Wasp, dir. Andrea Arnold, UK 2003, 26 min, English
WATCH
Wasp by Andrea Arnold
Filmmaker Andrea Arnold is known to wider audiences as the director of Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2016) for which she won the Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Before her success in the critical mainstream she had been noticed for touching, gutsy short film Wasp (2003) based on Arnold’s childhood memories from Dartford - the town when she grew up in a working-class family. The 26-minute long film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in 2005.
Wasp tells the story of a single mother struggling in poverty and with the parental responsibilities of four children. It is a film which places the audience through every emotion: distress, anger and empathy. You will empathise with every character, as beautifully acted by Natalie Press, Danny Dyer and Jodie Mitchell. This is without a doubt one of the best short films I’ve ever seen in my life!
VISIT
Close-Up Centre
Close-Up Film Centre in London is one of the best places for film lovers. Established in 2005, Close-Up is the most comprehensive film resource, with a library of DVD/Blu-ray collection of over 20,000 titles specialises in early cinema, classics, world cinema, documentaries, experimental films and video art. All films can be borrowed when you are a member.
You can spend time in the cozy café & bar to read one of the many books from the library or buy a ticket to the Cinema (with 40 comfortable seats) where film programmers present interesting underground films. In 2020, Close-Up celebrated their 15th anniversary and five years since they opened the cinema for the first time.
It is the perfect place for those who love independent and experimental films.
Close-Up Film Centre in London, 97 Sclater Street, London E1 6HR, https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/
BONUS
A conversation with Herzog
WERNER HERZOG - arguably one of the greatest living filmmakers, who battled Klaus Kinski on the set of Aguirre, Wrath of God, dragged a ship over a hill for Fitzcarraldo and famously ate his own shoe on film after losing a bet, came to Doc/Fest 2019 to discuss his acclaimed career with broadcaster Edith Bowman.
Supported by BBC Arts, filmed by Sheffield Hallam University students and edited by Matthew Sturdy (Cosmic Joke). Sheffield Doc Fest
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”